[Mailman-Users] Problem after bin/arch'ing

[Ian A B Eiloart]

--On Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:31 am +0200 Brad Knowles 
<brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:

> At 10:09 AM +0100 2004-07-22, Ian A B Eiloart wrote:
>
>>  I haven't tested this, but you should be able to use something like
>>  this. Copy everything between the ---snip--- lines, including the blank
>>  lines, but NOT the snip lines themselves.
>
> 	The problem with telling people to copy something exactly is when the
> message is processed by a downstream mail server that modifies what
> you've typed, so that other software doesn't get confused as to what
> constitutes an entire message in the mailbox.
>
> 	In particular, the conversion of "^From_" (where "^" represents the
> beginning of the line, and "_" represents a hard space character) to
> "^>From_".

Ah, yes of course. Sorry, you need to copy everything except the right 
angle bracket in that first line. Otherwise it'll all look like one very 
long message.

-- 
Ian Eiloart
Servers Team
Sussex University ITS